T. S. Eliot (post 4) by Edward Sorel in New York Times Book Review; also three past posts on poem “Prufrock” and alternate personality “The Captain”

Along with his caricature of T. S. Eliot, Edward Sorel discusses how, in 1921, the poet “teetered on the brink of a mental collapse” and how, when The Waste Land was published, “Some critics greeted the poem with outrage, some with puzzlement at its sudden changes in location, time and narrator” (1).

I wonder what readers of this blog would make of a writer whose work had puzzling changes in narrator?

Please search “T. S. Eliot” to see three past posts about his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and his real-life alternate identity called “The Captain.”

1. Edward Sorel. “How T. S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero.” New York Times, Nov. 9, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/books/review/ts-eliot-waste-land.html